You can pretend everything's fine, but if there's an unhappiness or you're not having sex or you're not communicating or you're made to feel third best in the house and you don't address it and you just try to put on a nice face and a smile, that kind of aggression and anger is going to come out in some sinister way.

I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.

All the copycat movies were always PG-13 and people said: "Nobody wants violence."